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Job Description

About the Role:

Join our dynamic team as a Purification Engineer, where you’ll play a vital role within the Purification Engineering structure. This position offers the opportunity to make impactful contributions to cutting-edge purification processes essential to our operations.

As a Purification Engineer, you’ll specialize in both mechanical systems and automation, responsible for the design and functional specification of advanced purification systems. These systems include a diverse range of processes, such as:

• Buffer preparationin process vessels
• Fluid transfersbetween vessels, through filters, chromatographic columns, nanofiltration skids, and ultrafiltration skids
• Equipment cleaning(Clean-in-Place and Clean-out-of-Place for smaller equipment)
• Final filtrationinto sterile mobile vessels

Your expertise will be integral to optimizing purification workflows and ensuring the highest standards of quality and efficiency. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals passionate about engineering and innovation in purification systems!

How you will contribute:

• Design, install/modify, commissioning and qualification of systems according to EHS, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and GEP (Good Engineering Practices) requirements;
• Support day-to-day requests from maintenance and production, active participation in daily operational meetings with actions follow-up
• Continuously improve process and equipment
• Manage modifications of equipment without assistance, or be integrated in larger projects teams. In particular, the position implies such as basic Design and support for project spending forecast, detailed design of new or modified systems, tenders writing, following of construction/coding, and start-up of equipment and writing and execution of validation packages.
• Be on the floor to understand and analyze problematic.
• Recommend efficient improvement to minimize production down time and increase quality.
• Perform troubleshooting support of maintenance and production

• Act as a technical leader, coordinating technical activities of up to 3 engineers.

• Collaborative and proactive member inside a multi-disciplinary team.

• Leads benchmark and innovative ideas, propose innovation long term plan.

What you bring to Takeda :

• Master degree in Mechanics or process engineering: (Or Bachelor degree+ Exp.)
• Engineer with at least 3 years of experience.
• Understand technical installations, equipment and systems used on the site.
• Able to be a tech­nical leader inside project development, investigations and routine problematics.
• Familiar with tech­nical & quality documentation according to GxP.
• Good communication skills and the ability to lead and perform effectively in multi-disciplinary teams
• Must have the ability to effectively participate to Engineering projects, coordinate suppliers, and drive results.
• Experience with Quality Systems and Processes in a GMP regulated and FDA licensed manufacturing site.
• Experienced with Purification or clean piping processes
• Fluent in French
• B2 level in English

What Takeda can offer you:

We want our employees to succeed in everything they do – at work, at home, and in the community. This is why we offer world-class benefits and access to resources that can support people.

Our sector and the needs of our patients are constantly changing, which is why we emphasize continuous training. We actively support and invest in the development of our employees through a 50/40/10 training model.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, prioritizing wellbeing, career growth, and work-life balance:

• Generous Time Off: 20 days of paid vacation in accordance with Belgian legislation and 12 Working Time Recovery days with additional days granted based on seniority and age.
• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive health and hospitalization insurance, annual check-ups starting at age 45, and support for preventive healthcare.
• Family Support: Paid leave for maternity, paternity, and adoption, along with dedicated spaces for nursing mothers.
• Career Development: Access to a Learning Catalog, language courses, and opportunities for internal and international mobility.
• Transportation & Eco-Benefits: Contributions for public transport, incentives for cycling, and on-site charging stations for electric vehicles.
• Additional Perks: Meal vouchers, eco-cheques, a flex plan, a 13th-month salary, and pension support.

Important Considerations:

At Takeda, our patients rely on us to create quality products, and we aim to create a safe environment for our team members. As a result, we must follow strict rules in our manufacturing facilities to ensure we are not endangering the quality of the product or putting anyone at the site in harm's way. In this role, you may:

• Work in a controlled environment requiring special gowning and wear protective clothing over the head, face, hands, feet and body. This may include additional hearing protection for loud areas.
• Need to remove all make-up, jewellery, contact lenses, nail polish and/or artificial fingernails while in the manufacturing environment.
• Work in a cold, hot environment and load manual handling.
• Work multiple shifts, including weekends, or be asked to work supplemental hours, as necessary.
• Work around chemicals and biologicals products that may require specific protection (respiratory, skin, etc.).

More About Us:

The Takeda Lessines manufacturing site plays a vital role in the production of Takeda’s plasma-based therapies. With over 75 years of pioneering legacy, Takeda is a global leader in rare diseases and ranks in the top three for plasma-derived products. Our Lessines manufacturing site is a state-of-the-art biotechnology production facility with over 50 years of experience, specializing in immunoglobulin purification, plasma-derived therapies, and packaging for treatments targeting blood disorders. Serving more than 250,000 patients worldwide, we are dedicated to delivering high-quality therapies that make a significant impact. As Takeda's third-largest global production site, Lessines plays a pivotal role in our international operations, producing and distributing million vials annually to more than 80 countries.

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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